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Salvador Aznar Benitah: "Eating certain fats stimulates metastasis"

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The magazine Quo devotes an extensive report to eating habits and nutritional knowledge, including information on fats found in food.

The report also includes an interview with Salvador Aznar Benitah, ICREA researcher and group leader of the Stem Cells and Cancer Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, about his study on the relationship between fat and metastasis (cancer spread), published in Nature. The first author of this study is Gloria Pascual. 

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A two-minute animation that explains the discovery published in Nature magazine (07/12/2016):

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